One Piece: chapter 893
This might go toward explaining some of Puddingâs behavior. Also, I skim over the idea of monsters and there be SPOILERS below!
This is actually cute. I love the idea of a tiny ship designed for dwarf use. (And donât think I donât see the nod to Norland on the flag.)
I feel like I should have something to say about this, but I canât quite think of what. At the minimum, the OP world seems to include invisible senses, such things or actions or perceptions that are not able to be seen with oneâs eyes. (I first started noticing it in Zoroâs fight with Mr. 1.)
I donât think heâs going to react the way you think...
Thatâs what I thought.
I feel like I havenât seen a self-inflicted wound like this in awhile. The earliest (Zoro whilst fighting Cabaji) stemmed from a sort of âif youâre going to go after my wounds and be a shitty swordsman, Iâll one up you, hurt myself worse, and still kick your ass.â In this context, itâs more of a âif youâre going to use dishonest tactics so I hurt him, then Iâll hurt myself the same way so it isnât.â
Yep. Here we go. Okay.
1. Why is he showing his face? Was the trouble earlier, about Luffy and others seeing him while eating, more a matter of being seen lying down and eating in contrast to the stoic and austere perception heâs created and how others on Whole Cake Island see him? Like itâs not how he looks, but how he was acting that made it necessary to kill the cooks that saw and Luffy too.
2. The automatic assertion that heâs a monster and the question of whether heâs cursed. Everyone sees him as so ideal and perfect that the actuality of him not having a âperfectâ face can only be explained by some outside effect. It canât be natural. And this leads into Pudding.
Many of Big Momâs children have monster-like characteristics, in features and behavior (by that I mean, in this context, a deterimental, callous, violent behavior). Very few have both in one, but it still stands that some of her childrenâs unusual features are just that: odd, peculiar, unusual.
But others, for some reason, seem to be deemed monstrous. And those, unlike personality, seem to derive only from physical features. Katakuri is monstrous or cursed. The same was said about Pudding. Now, whether I think the twoâs feature (mouth and eyes) are equivalent as monster features, I donât know. But itâs worth nothing this attitude does exist in the family and Whole Cake Island.
I like eels. Gulper eels arenât eels! (I donât think.) Theyâre deep-sea dwelling fish! <3 <3 What does that mean? (I mean, about who his father was.) Iâm so curious.
I like most sea life. (Also, is this Katakuriâs natural features? I assume so, since there was a panel that seemed to imply others called him gulper eel as a child. And because Iâm really into the sea, biology, and animals...)
Eurypharynx pelecanoides is called gulper eel, or pelican eel. But thereâs also a suborder of Saccopharynx called gulpers too. Actually, the entire order are called that, I think. Iâll dig a little more into this over the weekend, hopefully. Because if I like anything itâs the sea + the depths.
And here we go. Hereâs the second half.
Itâs not only that certain children of Big Momâs are deemed monsters, but the threat of exposure, ridicule, and condemnation of ugliness.
In Puddingâs case, these threats could have come from her family (although she could edit their memories* later) and seeing as well-liked as she is, I donât think sheâd like her âmonster traitâ to be broadcast to everyone. I also donât think sheâd liked not being liked.
Additionally, Pudding strikes me as being very emotional and melodramatic. Sheâs going to have a very overblown reaction. Which is what sheâs done.
Katakuri, on the other hand, wouldnât, I think, want Flambe to tell anyone anymore than Pudding, but heâs a little more, um, better at self-control when itâs needed.
Anyway, still curious to see how the fight turns out.
*but thatâs a whole essay waiting to happen about memory and memories and being remembered in OP














